%0 Report
        %A Advani, Arun
%A Koenig, Felix
%A Pessina, Lorenzo
%A Summers, Andy
        %T Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13731
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13731
        %X In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom 97%. These high incomes are predominantly from labour, rather than capital, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years can be attributed to migration.
        %K income inequality
%K migration
%K top income shares